Quotes About Inspiration

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!

I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

Let every human heart be open at spark of the light.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.